viii, 277 pages 23 cm

Janis identifies the causes and fateful consequences of groupthink, the process that takes over when decision-making bodies agree for the sake of agreeing to abandon their critical judgment

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258)

Why so many miscalculations? -- A perfect failure : the Bay of Pigs -- In and out of North Korea : the wrong war with the wrong enemy -- Pearl Harbor revisited : or why the fortress slept -- Escalation of the Vietnam War : how could it happen? -- The Cuban Missile crisis -- The making of the Marshall Plan -- Generalizations : who succumbs, when, and why? -- Preventing Groupthink

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